Some good ideas in these episodes, it was nice to allow Seven to show a bit more human emotion in the virtual reality realm, but the cliffhanger with Tuvok, B'Elanna, and Janeway being assimilated was a blatant attempt to retread TBOBW. And their instant recovery from being freaking Borg drones in the final minutes of Part 2 is almost unforgiveable. Being a Borg is an extremely traumatic experience.

I watched that one again the other day. I had almost forgotten how good early Voyager was. For all people's claims it had no character development, there were some promising arcs in the first couple of seasons. The Seska arc was interesting to me, and although not nearly enough was done with the Maquis storyline, there were some tensions in the early episodes. This is one of them. The way the Maquis crew members would disagree on how the ship was run.